Attributed Network Digital Registration Certificate Privity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional online networks lack mechanisms to establish privity between users, allowing anonymous data transmission and enabling users to repudiate transactions, leading to fraud and security issues.

Innovation Solution

An attributed network is created where data is attributed directly to users through a digital registration certificate generated via a human-witnessed process, establishing non-repudiable privity and reducing anonymity, thereby enabling secure transactions and enhanced security.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If data is transmitted anonymously over online networks, then user privacy and freedom are protected, but fraud and security issues increase due to inability to establish privity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprivity establishmentVSAvoidfraud and repudiation

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a digital registration certificate as an intermediary that mediates between users and the network. This certificate, generated through a human-witnessed process, serves as proof of identity and establishes privity without requiring continuous human presence. The certificate acts as a trusted intermediary that binds user identity to their digital actions, preventing fraud while maintaining user freedom.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary action by requiring users to undergo a human-witnessed registration process before accessing the network. During this preliminary phase, a digital registration certificate is generated and stored in a registry, establishing the user's identity in advance. This preliminary authentication prevents future fraud and repudiation by ensuring that only verified users can participate in network transactions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If a human-witnessed process is used to generate digital registration certificates, then privity and non-repudiation are established, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenon-repudiationVSAvoidregistration process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses copying by creating a digital representation (digital registration certificate) of the human-witnessed authentication process. Instead of requiring continuous human witnessing of all network interactions, the system creates a copy of the user's biometric data and authentication evidence during registration. This digital copy serves as sufficient proof of identity for all subsequent transactions, eliminating the need for ongoing human presence while maintaining non-repudiation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of continuous human witnessing with an automated digital verification system. Biometric authentication and cryptographic processes substitute for manual human verification in real-time transactions. The system uses automated comparison of biometric data and verification of digital signatures to establish privity without requiring human intermediaries for each interaction, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If users are attributed directly to their data, then accountability and trust are enhanced, but anonymity and user freedom are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser accountabilityVSAvoiduser anonymity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating between types of online interactions. For transactions requiring trust and accountability (financial transactions, contracts, official communications), the system enforces strict attribution through digital registration certificates. For casual or low-risk interactions, the system allows greater anonymity. This localized approach to attribution ensures accountability where needed while preserving user freedom and anonymity where appropriate, making the system adaptable to different contexts.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10893038B2Attributed network enabled by search and retrieval of privity data from a registry and packaging of the privity data into a digital registration certificate for attributing the data of the attributed network

Publication Date: 2021.01.12 COGNITIVE STRATEGIES LLC

AI summary

Methods and systems generate an attributed network for tracing transmitted data that is attributable to a user. A digital registration certificate includes an identity marker and a verified privity marker. The digital registration certificate is registered with an immutable entry in a registry, with the immutable entry also storing the identity marker and referencing the verified privity marker, and with retrieval of the digital registration certificate being required to access the attributed network. A client device requests to access the attributed network, and the systems and methods authenticate a user of the client device by verifying biometric login data as matching the identity marker included in the immutable entry in the registry. The digital registration certificate is obtained from the registry. A virtual browser configured for accessing the attributed network packages the digital registration certificate with data specified by the client device.